Ziggy 30th Promo Winners And New Competition

'Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars' 30th Anniversary CD.

Velvet Goldmine...

As we mentioned last week when we set the competition to win promos, (06/21/02 NEWS: BUY ZIGGY 30TH, HEAR SNIPPETS, WIN THE PROMO AND MORE!) the EMI release of 'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars' 30th Anniversary Special Edition double CD is out next Monday July 8th in the UK and the following Tuesday July 16th in the US.

Don't forget, you can pre-order via the BowieNet Store, and if you purchase the CD from the store before July 12th, you will automatically be entered for a contest in which you could win one of 30 Ziggy-related prizes, not to mention 10% off all subsequent purchases in the BowieNet store for the month of August.

Ziggy Promo Winners
Now for those five winners, who each win a copy of the highly-collectable and extremely limited, promotional only, double CDR of the 30th Anniversary 'Ziggy Stardust' . We asked what track was originally recorded during the 'Hunky Dory' sessions, but was eventually released on 'Ziggy Stardust' instead?

This was a very popular competition to which we had hundreds of entries, surprising really, as looking back at the question, it ain't easy. Actually it is. In other words, 'It Ain't Easy' is the answer we were looking for, and here are five of you who supplied the correct answer and were randomly selected by TRG?:

stoneghosts@davidbowie.com
jakkes@davidbowie.com
stardustdaydream@davidbowie.com
jpcaille@davidbowie.com
isolar1976@davidbowie.com

If you five lucky beggars send your address to MrTotalBlamBlam@AOL.com with a subject line of "Hunky Ziggy track winner". We'll send you your prize as soon as postmistress SusanS has finsihed gallivanting about Europe! (Hope you're having fun luv...well, I know you are, seeing as you're giving me hourly updates!)

Ziggy 30th Anniversary Special Edition Competition
In celebration of the anniversary of Ziggy's Last Stand at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, 29 years ago today, and the fact that the DVD isn't out for a few months yet, we are giving away five copies of the finished EMI release of the 'Ziggy Stardust' 30th Anniversary Special Edition CD to five BowieNetters who can answer this question:

The version of 'Moonage Daydream' on this CD was mixed especially for a TV/cinema ad...what was that advert?

MrTotalBlamBlam@AOL.com with a subject line of "Ziggy Stardust 30th Anniversary CD". We'll announce the winners on Monday. If you need a clue for this one, we have given the information in a previous news story, and you could do worse than check out the jolly splendid ZSC which has just been updated with details on this very release.

European Show And Venue Info

Those of you with tickets, you'll understand...

As of late, we've been getting a lot of questions and requests for the full skinny on the European shows.

Here's the 411:

If you have tickets that you've won here on BowieNet, or you have them waiting for you at the venue, all you need to do is show up at the venue the day of the show with some form of ID and (if you have one) your confirmation email. The confirmation email is not mandatory, it is only a backup. All BowieNet ticket winners are on the master list at each venue.

Venue information is as follows:

NORWAY
Quart Festival
Odderøya, Kristiansand, Norway.

DENMARK
Friluftsscenen-Lunden
Sundvej
DK 8700 Horsens
Doors 6.30pm

BELGIUM
Zeebrugge Beach Festival
Hippodroom, Koningin Astridlaan, 8400 Ostend, Belgium.
All day event

MANCHESTER
Move 2002
Old Trafford Cricket Ground
Manchester

COLOGNE
E-Werk
Schanzenstrasse 37
51063 Koln
Doors 7pm

NIMES
Nimes Festival
Nimes Arena
Open Air 3000 Nimes
Doors 5pm

LUCCA
Piazza Napoleone
Lucca
Doors 7pm

MONTREUX
Congress And Exhibition Centre
Stravinski Hall
Grand Rue 95
Doors 7.30pm

Last Night's Paris Show Recorded For Tv

DB at the Olympia in Paris last night
EPA PHOTO/AFP/BERTRAND GUAY

The European cannon is here...

David Bowie's twenty-song set at the Olympia Theatre in Paris last night was recorded by ARTE television for broadcast sometime in the near future. Eye-witness reports described David as particularly animated and in very high spirits.

The show began with a scorching rendition of 'Stay' and the set included a five-song encore ending with a version of 'Ziggy Stardust' that sent the highly appreciative audience into a frenzied delirium of joy...or something similar.

This was the first show, outside of a TV environment, that deviated from the 'Low'/'Heathen' set performed at The Roseland in NY and the RFH in London. Here is the complete set list from last night's show:

Stay
I've Been Waiting For You
Breaking Glass
Cactus
Slip Away
China Girl
5:15 The Angels Have Gone
Fashion
Be My Wife
Ashes
Afraid
Changes
Fame
"Heroes"
Heathen
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Everyone Says Hi
Hallo Spaceboy
Let's Dance
I'm Afraid Of Americans
Ziggy Stardust

DB boards Eurostar at Waterloo on Sunday
Photo By BRIAN RASIC/REX FEATURES

Some of the UK press printed pictures of David boarding the Paris-bound Eurostar yesterday. Looking rather spiffing in his 'Heathen' clobber, complete with lightly battered leather suitcase and trilby, David posed for pictures at London's Waterloo Station on Sunday afternoon. What a stylish sort of chap our very favourite rock god is!

Bowie Triumphs At The Rfh

David Bowie during the 'Heathen' section of Saturday's concert
at the RFH. Picture kindly donated by BowieNetter Steph Lynch

I heard the news today, oh boy...This morning's press here in the UK is unanimous in its praise of David Bowie's return to the London stage, after his show at the Royal Festival Hall on Saturday. Here are a few excerpts:

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The Guardian - A half-page, five star review by Maddy Costa under the headline of "THE EXTRAORDINARY MR STARDUST", with a large colour shot from the show.

"...Bowie's closing gig feels like an extraordinary event. Thirty years on from Ziggy Stardust, Bowie looks more like an alien being than ever. It's not his clothes - In fact, his luxurious white shirt and unknotted tie give him the air of a debauched dandy. It's the way he seems so ageless, flashing a toothy grin as he snakes his lithe, angular body about the stage.

His vocals are as spine-shivering as ever. When he clambers over the line "Don't you wonder sometimes" in Sound and Vision, or quivers through the chorus to I Would Be Your Slave, his voice appears to emerge from a part of the body the rest of us didn't know existed."

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The Daily Telegraph - By David Cheal, with a headline of "ALIVE, ANIMATED AND FOCUSED, BOWIE IS A HERO AGAIN"

"...this has to be up there with the best. He was alive, animated, focused, evidently having the time of his life, and he was backed by a singularly awesome band...Sensational, and unforgettable."

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The Times - Another half-page, five star review. Reviewed by David Sinclair, who ironically gave 'Heathen' a less positive review recently. Headline: "A STAR WHO WILL NEVER FALL TO EARTH" - includes a huge black and white shot from the show, with the following caption: "A resplendent vision of ageless cool, David Bowie remains a natural performer and a supremely gifted musician"

"...Looking, at 55, like David Beckham?s (slightly) older and better-groomed brother, he strode on in black waistcoat and white shirt, a resplendent vision of lithe, ageless cool...whatever changes Bowie has weathered, he remains a natural performer and a supremely gifted musician."

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Bowie and Bono backstage on Saturday. Picture © Kevin Mazur

Daily Star - By Ben Todd, with a headline of "BOWIE'S STILL GOT DRIVE" Includes three colour pictures of David, one large live shot, one backstage with Kylie and one being kissed on the cheek by Bono. (See above) The cryptic headline is explained in the story which doesn't mention the show itself, but instead details how David had to get a taxi to the gig because the tour manager got stuck in traffic and couldn't pick him up!

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Daily Mirror - With a headline of "BONO RECKONS BOWIE GIG WAS HUNKY DORY" Includes a large version of the same shot of Bowie and Bono. With a quote from David regarding the show: "I can't remember a time when I was received so warmly. It was fantastic."

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The Sun - Used a small mono pic from the show and gave the gig a thumbs up with the conclusion: "At 55 the Thin White Duke still looks and sounds great."

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Daily Record - Used a backstage shot of David and Charlene Spiteri, of the band Texas...and while we're on the subject of celebs at the show, here's a quick roll-call of those I know of, though I'm sure there were tons more:

Bono
Kylie Minogue
Brian Eno of Roxy Music };-)
Robert Smith of The Cure
The Dandy Warhols
Supergrass
Simon and Yasmin Le Bon, Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran
Charlene Spiteri of Texas
Sex Pistol Paul Cook
James Dean Bradfield of Manic Street Preachers
Siouxsie Sioux and Budgie
Toyah Wilcox

I'll post more pix and Meltdown stuff over the coming days, meanwhile, I hope all of you at the Paris show tonight have a great time, and please let us know how it went.

Norway And Denmark Ticket Winners

Due to all the system upgrades and maintenance, we have decided to post the winners on the site without having an email confirmation. The new BowieNet email system still is being tweaked up, and we wanted to make sure that all the winners were notified.

SO --

Without further adieu, we proudly announce the winners for the Quart Festival in Norway and the Horsens Ny Teater show in Denmark.

We are hoping that all the winners are able to attend. If you are able to attend simply show up at the venue with some form of ID.

Click here to see the list of winners for NORWAY

Click here to see the list of winners for DENMARK

Chaos Is Upon Us

As you all know, we are in the process of updating and moving the web servers. This total system upgrade will no doubt unearth several problems and create new ones as well. Please be patient with us as we get the pieces back into place. If you identify technical issues, please post them in the TECHNICAL SUPPORT message board.ThanksThe BowieNet Staff

Bowie On Ross Now

David Bowie being grilled by JR on Thursday.

And me I'm on a radio show...

David Bowie is due on the Jonathan Ross show in about fifteen minutes. He is in the building and waiting to join the chat. So far this morning the conversation with Jonathan's guest's, Ricky Gervais and David Baddiel, has centred on all things David Bowie, and very funny it is too.

There is also an online chat where you can apparently "Join Jonathan Ross & David Bowie for a chat", and obviously the show has been liberally sprinkled with the usual Bowie tunes. Click on the image above to take you there.

Win Tmwfte On Dvd Now... Or Sometime In The Future?

No mistake here... If you know what to do, good luck. If you don't, you need to look around!

Last Night With Ross And Bowie

"So David, advise me about Man Love."
JR gets close to David Bowie last night.

Waiting for the gift of sound and vision...

As I'm sure you all know by now, last night was the taping of "Friday Night with Ross and Bowie" which is due for broadcast a week from today (Friday July 5th) on BBC1, at 10:35pm. I won't give too much away before the broadcast, so those of you who weren't at yesterday's taping can enjoy the surprises too.

I can tell you that David and the band performed wonderful versions of 'Fashion', 'Slip Away', 'Be My Wife', 'Everyone Says Hi' and the intro to 'Fame' which was aborted in favour of a cracking rendition of 'Ziggy Stardust'.

A few of the highlights of the conversation between a nervous Jonathan Ross and a very relaxed and smiling David Bowie (in no particular order and nowhere near complete) were: Japanese sex toys for the ear, the cut-up technique, a stylophone duet, man love, Glam Rock clothing, the killing of Ziggy, birds and bees chat with Duncan, a brilliant rendition of Lexi-speak, the parallels between 'Low' and 'Heathen', and much, much more.

Can't wait to see the final broadcast to see how they've managed to edit this very entertaining craziness down to a TV programme!

Important Technical Update

You will start to see the fruits of our labor this coming weekend as we move into the final stage of our much-discussed technology upgrade. The promised enhancements to core community systems, specifically email and meesage boards will be live in a few days! Please read on for two particularly important updates.

1. Attention ISP Users!!

For those of you who use the dial-up service provided by BowieNet, please check your BowieNet email box before the weekend for detailed info on steps you need to take to continue uniterrupted service throughout the upgrade - and to enjoy faster connection speeds through more dial-up numbers after the change over.

2. Chat on Hold

When the new site features go live on Monday you will notice one thing missing - chat. Fear not, this is not a mistake or a permanent situation. The chat functioanlity is being re-built from the ground up and will require another week or two to get up and running. The new client will be much more fluid and easy to use than the current version.

Watch this space for more information.

Check Out Sound And Vision At Meltdown

Daniel Howard-Birt's, Love Will Ruin Your Mind
...in an early stage of its life, oh, how it's grown!

Waiting for the gift of sound and vision...

If you're planning to see David Bowie at Meltdown on Saturday, it's well worth getting there early to check out the Bowieart Sound and Vision exhibition, if you haven't already done so. The installation features wonderful work created by artists selected from Bowieart such as: Dan Howard-Birt, Luke Oxley, Giles Round, Graham Hudson, Tsai-Wei Chen, Seb Patane, Mathew Sawyer, Anthony Gross and Gaia Alessi with Richard Bradbury.

Check Bowieart (click on the image above) for a report on the opening night of Sound and Vision, and read a brief outline of the works these artists have exhibited for Sound and Vision in the original Bowieart press release, below. Sound and Vision runs until 29 June 2002 at Level 2, of the Royal Festival Hall.

Total Blam Blam - (BowieNet News Editor)

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The Collection of artists presented in Sound and Vision have been selected from Bowieart, David Bowie?s art website that allows the online community direct access to the talents of young artists, giving them the exposure they deserve at an important time in their careers. Current or recent graduates from top British colleges, the artists raise questions of articulation without relying exclusively on the purely visual. All ten artists concern themselves with the intensities of musical or popular pleasures, using music and contemporary culture as their language or sound as their source.

Despite the fact that the works included in Sound and Vision are conducted on the terrain of the popular they retain a degree of reflexivity while commenting upon a number of wider issues. Dan Howard-Birt for example, may use a song lyric in his work but he is not quoting a band or even making reference to it. The lyric interests him because of the casual and understated way it infers something much bigger; isolated as an articulate utterance the words take on a greater presence, referring to something beyond the linguistic. The same can be said of Luke Oxley, whose new light work for Sound and Vision mischievously and critically re-works a song lyric. In lifting words from an old Grandmaster Flash song Oxley confuses our taught reading and understanding of the language used. Giles Round on the other hand opts for a proclamation that hypnotically erupts from a rainbow of colours, the quote appears to have been captured from a song but its origin cannot be placed.

Other artists introduce tangible sound into the exhibition space whilst using it to greater ends; Graham Hudson playfully stages an orchestral war between two competing mixing decks, where a political West takes on the mystery of the Middle East. Whilst kr buxey presents a three part video work that concerns itself with desire and longing. Using reconfigured footage of women at Tom Jones concerts throughout the 60?s and 70?s, Legion observes compulsive and hysterical behaviour. Representing another side of desire and longing is Tsai-Wei Chen?s Cicada; an audio and visual experience that evokes feelings of loss, loneliness and yearning in a nostalgic attempt to capture the artist?s homeland. By evoking the sound of the cicada the artist creates a mesmerising sonic environment similar to that created in Seb Patane?s video piece. Drone is a new work by the artist that explores the language of sound in an entrancing dirge that visualises white noise. Mathew Sawyer on the other hand uses music itself as his means of communication and presents new audio tracks for the exhibition.

Using up to the minute technology, artist Anthony Gross uses mainstream software customised with downloads from the Internet. Band of One is a new installation consisting of animation and music that centres on a simulated boy band of 3D computer clones. Intended as studies of group male exhibitionism, these images also raise questions concerning the commodification of the body within a generic pop industry. While Gaia Alessi and Richard Bradbury have collaborated on a new work fittingly titled D.I.S.C.O.S, the acronym for all the manmade junk currently floating around the planet outside the atmosphere. Experienced within a configuration of elliptical speakers, the contents of the D.I.S.C.O.S. database orbits the participant detaching itself and drifting ever further away from its meaning.

Meltdown Bowie Ticket Collection Information

OK, I think we have all bases covered. If you are going to Meltdown and have yet to collect your tickets, please read the following very carefully.

If You Ordered Via BowieNet:

There will be a BowieNet collection desk in the RFH foyer, manned by, or I should say womaned by, (it's so confusing these days) our very own SusanS. (What a Trojan) This set up is only for those of you that ordered your tickets via the BowieNet Ticket Store, and not via the RFH directly. (See "If You Ordered Direct From The RFH" below for details if you ordered directly from the RFH)

When you ordered via BowieNet you will have received an e-mail confirmation that was sent from "Musictoday Tickets" with a subject line of "Your Ticket Order" on or around 23rd April. This e-mail confirmation contained your seat numbers, an order number and the following information:

"Will-call orders will be held at the venue box office the day of show. You must bring your confirmation e-mail receipt, picture ID, and credit card used to purchase the tickets online. Without your picture ID and either the e-mail receipt or credit card used to purchase the tickets, you may be denied entry to the event and no refund will be issued."

OK, so the only change to that instruction is that you can collect your tickets the day before the show, as well as on the day of the show. I understand that many of you won't necessarily have picture ID, or the credit card that the tickets were ordered on, but as long as you bring that e-mail confirmation and some form of identification, preferably something with your picture on it, (passport, work security card, travel pass etc) it will make things easier for everybody.

Here are the times you can collect your tickets from the BowieNet collection point in the RFH foyer:

Friday June 28th 14:00pm to 20:00pm
Saturday June 29th 14:00pm to 19:00pm

Any tickets not collected by 19:00pm on Saturday will be handed over to the RFH Box Office where anybody arriving later can collect them. I do recommend that you try to collect well before 19:00pm on Saturday to avoid any last minute problems, and don't forget that e-mail confirmation and your ID.

If You Ordered Direct From The RFH:

If you ordered your tickets directly from the RFH, and haven't had them sent to you, your tickets should be ready for collection now. It is advisable to call the RFH box office on 020 7960 4242 to check your tickets are there before you go to the venue to collect.

Please note...you can not check if your tickets are at the RFH if you ordered via BowieNet...the people in the RFH box office will not be able to help you, so please don't confuse them. Everything you need to know about collecting your tickets should be contained within this post, so please re-read if you haven't understood.

Order Moonage Daydream "masterpiece" Now

Freak out in a moonage daydream oh yeah!

Yesterday's Sunday Telegraph Magazine here in the UK had a four-page-spread preview (see above) of the Moonage Daydream book that we first told you about over a year ago. (05/01/01 NEWS: MOONAGE DAYDREAM - THE DETAILS & 08/08/01 NEWS: MOONAGE DAYDREAM UNVEILED) The book is now available to order in two different editions, including a beautiful leather bound version of only 250 copies which includes an exclusive print signed by Mick Rock.

All of the books contain the page illustrated below, which is signed by both David Bowie and Mick Rock, and apart from many previously unreleased pictures from Mick's library of 6,000 shots of Ziggy, (many of which Mick has managed to keep secret until now) David himself has written some 15,000 words especially for Moonage Daydream. Having been privileged to see a dummy copy of the book, I can tell you that he does give some fascinating insights into the period, and the pictures are just astonishing.

Here are a couple of David's captions from the book that the Sunday Telegraph used in their piece.

"When the TV series Bewitched went into colour in the late 1960s, for some strange reason Samantha occasionally wore tiny tattoos on her face. I thought it looked really odd, but inspired. So I used a little anchor on my face myself for the 'John, I'm Only Dancing' Video."

So now you know. Perhaps the anchor would be an appropriate little motif for Sailor to re-adopt. The next caption I've taken from the Sunday Telegraph piece justifies pretty well why I have had the little sticker, that I've posted below, in my collection for close on thirty years. OK, it may have seemed a tenuous link to Bowie at the time, but now everybody wants one! };-)

"The flash on the original Ziggy set was taken from the "High Voltage" sign that was stuck on any box containing dangerous amounts of electricity. I was not a little peeved when Kiss purloined it. Purloining, after all, was my job."

Good stuff eh? This truly is a fantastic publication, and I'm sure the limited edition of the book will go very quickly indeed. Click on any of the images above to take you to Genesis Publications? Moonage Daydream ordering page, and go here for their news page that includes a very favourable review of the book from The Washington Post, that describes the book as a "masterpiece"...and that's an accurate description.

Tony Visconti In Concert

The one and only Tony Visconti will be hosting and playing in a four piece band at Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette St @ Astor Place) on Wednesday June 26.

The group consists of TV on bass, Dave Matos on guitar, Dennis Diken (of The Smithereens) on drums and Joe McGinty (Losers Lounge) on keyboard. Three singers, Richard Barone, Kristeen Young (who sang some back ups on Heathen) and Mark Anthony Thompson of Chocolate Genius.

They will be doing songs that TV has produced or arranged over the span of his career. Obviously there will be lots of David's songs and Marc Bolan's songs in the show.

A splendid time will be had by all.

Come out and join us!

"do" Bowie With Mask In London On Saturday

Roseland 2002 poster signed by Rex Ray, Mask
and hopefully David Bowie...it could be yours!

...looked a lot like you and me...

The deliciously diminutive photographer and occasional non-stop Go-Go dancer, Mask, wants to give you the chance to "Do" Bowie. And what's more, you could win a pretty groovy prize just for having a bit of fun! So, what the bloomin' heck am I going on about?

Well, that other BowieNet big talent, and theatrically inclined Rex Ray, is running a "Bowie related/inspired exhibition" at Gallery 16 in San Francisco, from mid August to mid September. More details on this event as we get them, suffice to say Mask has been invited to take part.

The Plan

For her contribution, Mask plans to shoot at least fifty willing participants under the banner: "Doing Bowie". This entails a group of people, exactly like you, choosing their favourite Bowie persona and attempting to recreate it for the camera. This is your chance for a kind of strange world-domination, and you won't even have to shave your legs, as Mask will be shooting from the waist up. (Too late...Rednik already waxed!)

Anyway, the shoot will take place in a studio located pretty close to the home of Meltdown, the RFH, where most of you are going to be on the day of the shoot anyway. This truly exciting art event takes place between 1:00pm and 4:30pm this coming Saturday the 29th.

If you aren't the type that particularly wants to travel in your Bowie clobber, be it an Aladdin Sane lightning bolt, a Ziggy gold blob, a Labyrinth wig, TMWFTE alien eyes, or a combination of the lot...you can get changed and made up at the studio, (you must bring everything you'll need for your transformation with you though) with plenty of time to get ready for the Bowie show later that day. The shoot will be "painless and fast"...it says here...especially if you are ready to have your picture done as soon as you arrive.

If you do take part, you will be agreeing to full permission of the usage of the picture taken of you, not only for the aforementioned exhibition, but also for a possible book recording the event, also called "Doing Bowie". Please understand that you can remain anonymous for the project if you so desire, but who wouldn't want to be associated with such a great idea?!

A print of David Bowie made by Mask.
This beautiful thing could be yours too.

What Do I Get?

Your incentive? Apart from your image becoming an actual piece of art, your own page in the book, and helping out Mask you mean? Well, OK...we have something else too.

Depending on the amount of people that show up, we will give away a very special Roseland 2002 poster, (see poster at the top of this piece) that is already signed by its designer, Rex Ray, and is about to be signed by Mask who took the picture on it, and will hopefully be signed by the subject, David Bowie himself. We will give away up to twenty of these posters, and the recipients will be chosen randomly after the event.

There will also be one very beautiful print of David taken by Mask, printed on high quality doo-dah and all that malarkey (see above). This will also be awarded to one lucky random attendee after the event.

How Do I Get Involved?

If you are interested in taking part in this little bit of rock history in the making, please e-mail me immediately at TotalBlamBlam@DavidBowie.com as we need to get an idea of numbers ASAP. You can continue to e-mail me up until Friday, but please do make contact as soon as you think you'll take part. We will reply with the final details of where and when as soon as we have them, and we'll post them on the MBs too, just to be safe. Oh I can't wait...now, where did I put my 'The Man Who Sold The World' man's dress?

Today Show Picture Competition Winner(s)

David Bowie during the taping of the Today show in NY last
Friday. Winning picture taken by BowieNetter David Poley.

After Today...

Last Friday (14th) we asked you for your pictures from David's performance at NBC's Today TV Show 7th Annual Summer Concert Series, (06/14/02 NEWS: LIVE REPORT FROM TODAY SHOW SOUNDCHECK) and we promised to reward the person whose picture we used with a highly collectable 'Heathen'/'Slow Burn' package, that comprises four different European CDs, two of which are much sought after promotional items.

"'Rock 'n' Roll Suicide'? No problem son!" DB takes requests
during rehearsals for the Today show. Picture by David Poley.

Well, we have a winner in superfan, David Poley, and two of the pictures he sent us within moments of DB leaving the stage are reproduced above. Mr Poley was also the man responsible for requesting 'Rock 'n' Roll Suicide' during the soundcheck, for which he was rewarded, unbelievably, with most of the requested song. Thanx a lot David, send your address to TotalBlamBlam@DavidBowie.com with a subject line of "Today Pic Winner" and we'll have your booty off to you as soon as you've responded.

"Look at him up there, that disguise is fooling nobody!" - or...
"Somebody Up There Likes Me" - Picture by MIchael DeCero.

We've also decided to reward BowieNetter MIchael DeCero with the same prize for two of his superb pictures, (above and below) which didn't reach us quite as quickly as Mr Poley's shots, but deserve a prize anyway. Well done lads, don't forget to forward me the address you want your prizes delivered to, and thanx again for sharing your work with BowieNet.

"Here Slicky, why has Blammo taken a whole week to post these pictures up do you
think?" - "Well he's been busy at Meltdown all week David, and we know better than
anybody that Rockin' 'n' Rollin' is a pretty tough gig, man." Picture by MIchael DeCero.

Bowie's Very Own Signed Guitar On Ebay Now!

Ziggy played (this) guitar...(well perhaps not Ziggy, but David Bowie did!)

The BowieNet/eBay auctions have resumed for one week only for a very special auction indeed. Why so special? Well, the blurb from the auction page says it best, so here it is:

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David Bowie SIGNED Yamaha F-310 acoustic guitar David Bowie and BowieNet are proud to present this unique Charity Auction for a very special cause...

The item in question is a very special one, indeed...a Yamaha F-310 acoustic guitar signed by David. All proceeds from this auction are to benefit a cause that is special as well: Mychal's Learning Place.

Mychal's Learning Place believes that children with developmental disabilities should be provided with opportunities that encourage them to reach their full potential. Their mission: to challenge and assist these children to build self esteem and encourage independence through goal oriented activities.

This signed guitar will be their main source of funding the year, so bid knowing that you will be helping a truly honorable cause.

Auction Includes: One Yamaha F-310 acoustic guitar, signed by David Bowie Includes a print-out of David's letter testifying to his use of the guitar.

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For those struggling to read David's COA in the image above (sorry about the huge file btw, but it's all in a good cause) here are the words again:

"I used this guitar for a long time. It travelled around the world with me. It has been my companion guitar for strumming on the porch or writing sitting on the beach, and I hope it gives you as much as it's given me." - David Bowie - March 2002

With 8 days to go, the bidding is currently at $1,125.00 - But that's nowhere near enough just yet! So if you know any extremely rich folk who need a jolly nice guitar, point them in the direction of the BowieNet Auctions Page now, and let them enjoy a good old fashioned bidding frenzy!

Bowiephiles

David and Iman at the CFDA awards: Image: Us magazine: 06/17/02

Sashay on the boardwalk

TV : Conan O'Brien : 06/23/02

Showing on CNBC in the UK at 8.45PM on Sunday June 23rd. This is a chance for viewers in the UK to see David's performance on the recent episode of Conan O'Brien. (pabsjl)

TV : 'Artworks' : 06/23/02

Showing on Carlton and LWT in the UK at 5.00PM on Sunday June 23rd, this 30 minute programme includes a look at Meltdown.

Roseland Review : Billboard

Although this review of doesn't tell us anything we didn't already know about Roseland, it does include some hints from David on the Area 2 setlist:- "We're looking at a set of some stuff from the 'Low' period, some stuff from the new album. I don't know how many classics we'll play. I just look out at the sea of faces and take it from there. We've learned 46 songs so far, so we should be pretty well set up for most places."

Legendary Stardust Cowboy : Mercury News : 06/13/02

If, like me, you are fascinated by The Legendary Stardust Cowboy and his connections with David, there is an article online at The Mercury News which tells a little more of his story. If you missed Blammo's excellent article on TLSC's performance at Meltdown, check it out at 06/16/02 NEWS: LAST NIGHT'S LEGENDARY MELTDOWN MAGIC.

(Thanks to Judy for the scan)

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Online Interview Round-up

Image © Markus Klinko

Talking bout...

Washington Post : 06/09/02

This interview is slightly different from many others, in that David plays DJ for the reporter, and talks about his influences throughout the whole of his career. It begins:- "James Brown is great. Jacques Brel is great. So why not combine them? Why not marry the distinctly American fervor of funk to the heart-tugging gravity of French art songs? You know, create a sort of James Brel. Or a Jacques Brown." Fascinating stuff..

The Observer : 06/09/02

' As he brings 'Be My Wife' to a close, Bowie turns to the audience, grins the widest of grins and leans into the microphone. 'Waddya reckon?' he asks. 'Good innit!' Awe-struck, the entire audience mutely nods its agreement. All three of us.

Associated Press : 06/14/02

"My entire career, I've only really worked with the same subject matter," he said. "The trousers may change, but the actual words and subjects I've always chosen to write with are things to do with isolation, abandonment, fear and anxiety ? all of the high points of one's life."

Asked about his career's high points, Bowie said: "What I'm most proud of is that I can't help but notice that I've affected the vocabulary of pop music. For me, frankly, as an artist, that's the most satisfying thing for the ego."

USA Today : 06/11/02

Bowie's personal take on his creative legacy is, at first blush, relatively modest. ''I feel so knocked out that something I've done has permeated these little seeds I've unwittingly planted,'' he says.

''But in the back of my mind,'' Bowie adds, with an impish grin, ''I think there was always a sense of, 'There -- follow that.' ''

Enjoy!

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Buy Ziggy 30th, Hear Snippets, Win The Promo And More!

David Bowie, early 1972. From the very first Ziggy photo session.
Picture by Brian Ward. Just one of the rare shots taken from the
'Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars' 30th Anniversary CD.

So come on, come on, we've really got a good thing going...

The EMI release of 'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars' 30th Anniversary Special Edition double CD, (04/26/02 NEWS: ZIGGY, THE SECOND COMING) due on July 8th in the UK and July 16th in the US, can now be pre-ordered via the BowieNet Store. If you purchase the CD from the store between now and July 12th, you will automatically be entered for a contest in which you could win one of the following Ziggy-related prizes:

GRAND PRIZE: One winner gets a set of David?s entire EMI back catalogue!
5 people win Ziggy Stardust 2002 Signed and Numbered Lithographs
10 people win Ziggy Stardust Original Album Art T-Shirt
15 people win Ziggy Stardust 2002 Posters

That's over 30 winners in all, not to mention 10 per cent off all subsequent purchases in the official BowieNet store for the month of August and free trial access to BowieNet for the month of August. Click here for details. You can enjoy snippets from the bonus CD by clicking on the image above and then clicking on the CD2 song titles on the left hand side of the page.

Promotional copy of 'Ziggy Stardust' 30th Anniversary CD.

And as if that wasn't enough you can also win one of five copies of the highly-collectable and extremely limited promotional only double CDRs, pictured above. To be in with a chance of getting your mitts on a copy, simply tell me what track was originally recorded during the 'Hunky Dory' sessions, but was released on 'Ziggy Stardust' instead?

Send your answers to TotalBlamBlam@DavidBowie.com with a subject line of "Hunky Ziggy track". We'll announce the winners this time next week...probably. };-)